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title: Prince Vivien was wild with impatience, and thought that the Green C… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Prince Vivien was wild with impatience, and thought that the Green Castle would never be reached. Who acts: Vivien. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 2, sentence 61

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Prince Vivien was wild with impatience, and thought that the Green Castle would never be reached.

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**Who acts:** Vivien · **What happens:** be, think, not reach · **To what, where:** Green Castle · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Vivien), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg7277:37:61
# text = Prince Vivien was wild with impatience, and thought that the Green Castle would never be reached.
1	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod:desc	_	_
2	Vivien	Vivien	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	impatience	impatience	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
10	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	Green	Green	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	Castle	Castle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
15	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
16	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	reached	reach	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Vivien  Prince |  |  |  |  | with impatience; wild *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **reach** | would · passive |  | the Green Castle |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: subject=Theme |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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